Isaiah 63:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

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  • Ps 74:3-7 : 3 Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place; 4 Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen. 5 They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees. 6 Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades. 7 They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.
  • Isa 62:12 : 12 And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.
  • Isa 64:11-12 : 11 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment? 12 []
  • Lam 1:10 : 10 The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.
  • Lam 4:1 : 1 How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
  • Dan 8:24 : 24 And his power will be great, and he will be purposing strange things. And all will go well for him and he will do his pleasure; and he will send destruction on the strong ones.
  • Matt 24:2 : 2 But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
  • Rev 11:2 : 2 But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.
  • Exod 19:4-6 : 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself. 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
  • Deut 26:19 : 19 And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.

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    19 We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.

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    1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

    2 Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

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  • Isa 63:17
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    17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

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    7 They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

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  • Lam 1:10
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  • Isa 64:9-12
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    9 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

    10 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.

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  • Lam 2:6-7
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    6 And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

    7 The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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  • Jer 51:51
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    51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

  • Ps 94:5
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    5 Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

  • Ezek 44:8
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    8 And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.

  • Lam 3:45
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    45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

  • Exod 15:17
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    17 You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

  • Ezek 22:8
    70%

    8 You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    70%

    8 And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,

  • Ps 114:2
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  • Ps 79:7
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    7 For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.

  • Jer 17:12
    70%

    12 A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.

  • Lam 5:2
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  • Dan 9:15
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  • Ps 83:12
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    12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.

  • Ps 63:2
    69%

    2 To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.

  • Ezek 7:21
    69%

    21 And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.

  • Ezek 36:2
    69%

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  • Joel 2:17
    69%

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  • Dan 9:7
    69%

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  • Jer 14:20
    69%

    20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

  • Ps 89:51
    69%

    51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

  • Ps 60:1
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  • Ezek 23:38
    69%

    38 Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.

  • Jer 2:7
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    7 And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

  • Ps 44:10
    69%

    10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

  • Jer 16:19
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    19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

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    10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

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    6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

  • Jer 32:23
    68%

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    22 For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.